EARTH CITY, Mo. -- Last offseason was a long and difficult one for Los Angeles Rams center Tim Barnes.
Barnes was a restricted free agent but the Rams declined to give him a tender offer, which made him an unrestricted free agent. After a relatively long wait, Barnes visited the Kansas City Chiefs before signing back with the Rams on March 31.
But Barnes' new deal was just a one-year, $1 million contract that guaranteed only that he would be back in the unenviable position of searching for another job this offseason, if not sooner.